title: Potential use of a 100-mm film digitizer and image processor for film archiving.
abstract: The present study was undertaken to examine experimentally and clinically whether a 100-mm roll-film digitizer and image processing device could preserve or increase the diagnostic accuracy of 100-mm roll films used in the mass screening of patients for lung cancer and provide picture archives of high enough image quality to replace the original films. The quality of the processed digitized CRT image was found to be only slightly less than that of the original films. There was only a slight decrease in diagnostic accuracy, and the system was judged to be potentially useful as a miniature picture archiving and reference system.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Kobe University School of Medicine, Japan.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kono
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yamasaki
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ikeda
mesh_terms: D004867:Equipment Design; D005188:False Negative Reactions; D005471:Fluoroscopy / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards; D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000592:standards; D007564:Japan; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008843:Microfilming / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000592:standards; D011873:Radiology Information Systems / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000592:standards; D014962:X-Ray Film / Q000592:standards*